Contents include:

Historical

Alcoholic or Spirituous Fermentation

Alcoholic Ferments

Actual Composition of Ferments

Functions of Yeast

Action of Various Chemical and Physical Agents on Alcoholic Fermentation

Can Nothing but Alcoholic Yeast Excite Alcoholic Fermentation?

Viscous or Mannitic Fermentation of Sugar

Lactic Fermentation

Ammoniacal Fermentation

Butyric Fermentation and Putrefaction

Fermentation by Oxidation

Application of the Researches and Ideas of M. Pasteur

This vintage book contains a comprehensive handbook on fermentation, with historical information, scientific descriptions, instructions of practical application, and many other related aspects. “Fermentation” will be of considerable utility to those with a keen interest in brewing beer and ale at home and would make for a worthy addition to any collections of allied literature.

Many vintage books like this are becoming increasingly hard-to-come-by and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality addition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on brewing beer.